Type Confusion in Adobe Flash Player - CVE-2012-0779

Vulnerability identifier: #VU3044

CSH Severity: Critical

CVSS v4: 8.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2012-0779

CWE-ID: CWE-843

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: The vulnerability is being exploited in the wild

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The weakness exists due to object type confusion error when processing .swf files. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted .swf file, trick the victim into opening it and execute arbitrary code with privileges of the current user.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in arbitrary code execution on the vulnerable system.

Note: the vulnerability was being actively exploited.

Adobe Flash Player
Gentoo Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation

Update Adobe Flash Player for Windows, Macintosh and Linux to 11.2.202.235.
http://www.adobe.com/go/getflash
http://www.adobe.com/licensing/distribution
Update Adobe Flash Player for Android 2.x and 3.x to 11.1.111.9.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.adobe.flashplayer&hl=en
Update Adobe Flash Player for Android 4.x to 11.1.115.8.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.adobe.flashplayer&hl=en

• Exploit #678 - Adobe Flash Player - Object Type Confusion (Metasploit) (March 18, 2020)
• Exploit #1712 - Adobe Flash Player Object Type Confusion (March 18, 2020)

• https://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb12-09.html

• Remote code execution in Adobe Flash Player
• SUSE Linux update for flash-player
• openSUSE update for flash-player
• SUSE Linux update for flash-player
• Red Hat update for flash-plugin
• Gentoo update for Adobe Flash Player